The defending champions set the best time as they passed through every time check to take the victory in a time of 42min 07sec for the 38.6km course.
Etixx-QuickStep, winners in 2012/13, finished 11 seconds behind BMC while Movistar was third at 30 seconds. Second place in 2014, Australia's Orica-GreenEDGE closed out their ride in fourth place at almost a minute between them and the winners.
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BMC were prohibitive favorites going in to the race with a strong line-up including Dennis, Taylor Phinney, Silvan Dillier, Stefan Kueng, Daniel Oss and Manuel Quinziato.
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Tinkoff-Saxo's podium hopes were dashed when Michael Rogers and Michael Valgren touched wheels and went down hard. They eventually remounted and finished the race.
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Benchmark times were first set by Champion System-Stan’s NoTubes, Jelly Belly-Maxxis, Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies, then WorldTour teams IAM, Cannondale-Garmin, FDJ, Lotto-JumboNL and then Giant-Alpecin as the top four teams later slugged it out.
